she increased
the iron in her own diet. When she returned to the doctor a month  
later, the
still exclusively breastfed baby now had normal iron levels. I know  
this is
a case of one, but I found that interesting!

Teresa Pitman


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i can add a case # two to this. my 1st son was born at 35 wks. had  
normal iron until the 9 month checkup. he still had not cut any teeth  
nor shown the slightest interest in solids and so was exclusively  
bf'ed. the ped said we needed to do the iron drops. those things were  
horrible! smelled like coke syrup, stained all his clothes and mine.  
he hated it. he would shudder and gag and spit it out all over us. i  
tried forcing it for about a week and then gave up in disgust. instead  
i greatly increased my own intake of iron rich foods and when we  
rechecked a month later, his iron levels were beautiful. none of my  
others have ever had low iron again and when they start solids (all of  
them around 8 mos - 1st one at 11 mos) i begin giving them cod liver  
oil in addition to plenty of leafy greens and lots of healthy seeds  -  
esp in the winter where we can go weeks w/out seeing the sun here in  
michigan.



~jacqui gruttadauria, bsw

where it's beginning to look a lot like spring as of yesterday near  
detroit, michigan !




























































On Mar 14, 2008, at 8:05 AM, LACTNET automatic digest system wrote:

>  Question about iron


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